Test 12 · Friends, teams and fair play
we lost cos jake missed the goal
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we, jake · What happens: lose, miss · To what, where: goal
This is test 12 of lesson 52 «Friends, teams and fair play» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 5 missed | mark |
| 4 | jake | jake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 missed | nsubj |
| 5 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lost | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 goal | det |
| 7 | goal | goal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 missed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | we | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | miss | past | jake | the goal | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer goal=Stimulus |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Kick him off the team
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kick | kick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Kick | obj |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 team | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 team | det |
| 5 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Kick | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick | imperative | you not said here | him = he | off the team | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient off team=Co-Patient |
Option 2
Never pass to him again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 pass | advmod |
| 2 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pass | obl |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 pass | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not pass | imperative | you not said here | him = he | again | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location |
Option 3
Yes, it's all Jake's fault
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 fault | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fault | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fault | cop |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 fault | advmod |
| 6 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 fault | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Jake | case |
| 8 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | Jake's fault | all property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Teams don't blame one person
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teams | team | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 blame | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 blame | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 blame | advmod |
| 4 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 person | nummod |
| 6 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blame | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not blame | present · do-support | Teams | one person | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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